Found Deceased UK - Nicola Bulley Last Seen Walking Dog Near River - St Michaels on Wyre (Lancashire) #3

[StillDiggin]

#MISSING | Have you seen Nicola Bulley, who has gone missing from home in Inskip?

Nicola, 45, was last seen at around 9.15am today (Friday, January 27th) on the footpath by the river off Garstang Road in St Michael’s on Wyre.

She is described as white, 5ft 3ins tall, with light brown shoulder-length hair. She speaks with an Essex accent.

She was last seen wearing a long black gilet jacket with a hood, black jeans and olive green ankle wellies. Her hair was tied into a ponytail.

Immediately prior to going missing she was walking her dog, described as a brown-coloured Spaniel. Although the dog has since been found close to where we believe Nicola was last seen, we hope this might help jog the memory of anybody who saw her at around the same time and who may have information about where she was going.
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[YaYa_521]

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[YaYa_521]

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[YaYa_521]

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[YaYa_521]

<modsnip> @YaYa_521 can I just ask are we allowed to put our own handdrawn maps on of potential walking routes etc? Surely if we are speculating we can do this. We obviously can’t add a source in those instances. Thanks

@Firstsnow4
Hand drawn maps are fine. If the map is drawn on paper, simply take a snapshot then upload stating it's your own creation/document. However, if you use a map template from a source such as Google Maps and you add lines showing the route from point A to point B or Xs to show where the bench/house/dog/harness/leash/etc. were located, then a link to the mapped coordinates is required.

HTH

 

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[YaYa_521]

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Let's move on from the lady in red photo. Police have located her. Also, they have not asked for our assistance to find any other "people" in the photo.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1621174292435042304

 

[Danny Dnipro]

Lancashire Police latest map and timeline.

Clears up 'Upper and Lower' fields.

Also has some interesting new timings

Lancashire Constabulary - Search continues for Nicola Bulley as potential new witness is sought

The latest news and information for Lancashire Constabulary

www.lancashire.police.uk

 

[Edinlass]

Photo below for reference <has been modsnipped>. Lead attaches to willows harness so unless willow had the harness on it couldn’t have been dragging the lead and the harness also be on the ground/bench.

Also, I am not so sure willow would get out that harness without intervention so firmly now of the belief the harness wasn’t on. Just doesn’t make sense I always sort of thought had willow been tied to the bench and something happened this is how it couldn’t follow but that blows that theory out the water unless the lead was tied to the bench attached to a collar only and somehow it broke free from bench and lead would still have been on, subsequently dragging it. Head hurts.

<modsnip - no source link for image>

 

[SpursGyal]

<modsnip - quoted post modsnipped>
There’s so much contradicting going on in MSM reports.

 

[MsMiniSleuth]

The real time walk video on this link traces her exact footsteps.

While it looks very deserted on the path, there is also not really easy access for someone to get away or to hide a body if she had been attacked.

Coming to the bench you see the water there looks relatively low, so don't see how even if she had slipped she could have been dragged under .

Video tracks Nicola Bulley's journey to bench where phone was found

The hunt for Nicola Bulley entered a seventh day today as specialist diving teams continue attempts to trace the missing mortgage adviser after she vanished along the River Wyre in Lancashire.

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[Danny Dnipro]

Photo below for reference. Lead attaches to willows harness so unless willow had the harness on he couldn’t have been dragging the lead and the harness also be on the ground/bench.

The phone has been found both on the floor and on the bench.

Anything is possible at this point. I've binned
MSM in this case. Witness statements are unreliable IMO. Only currently interested in what LE are posting on their website as 'fact'.

 

[CJS83]

Without knowing how clever, gentle, & slobbery Willow is, could she have taken a dropped phone from another location (upper field?) to the bench herself, if she was looking for Nicola?

Just speculation / MOO

 

[Rhiandrath]

I strongly feel she never reached the area where the phone and dog were found.

MOO

 

[ginnyw]

As someone just posted, it seems that anything is possible at the moment, although it seems quite rare for somebody to fall in a river and lose their life, but far less rare, unfortunately, for women to be assaulted either by strangers or people that they know.

 

[DirtySleuth87]

I've been reading this thread and just wanted to register to comment on the dog lead/harnass.

When my partner and I take out dogs for walks and we want to let them off lead, it is much easier take off the full harnass off the dog than it is to unclip the lead from the harness. Especially if it's cold and your hands are less nimble, or if you're wearing gloves, or if you're only using 1 hand (i.e. holding a phone in the other).

The clips on the harnass are big plastic clips that are easy to release, as opposed to what is a much smaller (usually metal) clip on between the lead and harnass.

Just worth a thought.

 

[Cicane]

Just watched the video appeal, wtf, “How much are you missing her?!” I’m guessing the reporter was told to say that to spark an emotive response? If anything has happened to her involving a third party it’s just horrific basically, that anyone could do that.

There has been a real feeling on previous threads that she never reached the bench. I’m guessing you guys have a lot more experience and the fact so many people are saying it. I hope you’re wrong though.

 

[Cicane]

I've been reading this thread and just wanted to register to comment on the dog lead/harnass.

When my partner and I take out dogs for walks and we want to let them off lead, it is much easier take off the full harnass off the dog than it is to unclip the lead from the harness. Especially if it's cold and your hands are less nimble, or if you're wearing gloves, or if you're only using 1 hand (i.e. holding a phone in the other).

The clips on the harnass are big plastic clips that are easy to release, as opposed to what is a much smaller (usually metal) clip on between the lead and harnass.

Just worth a thought.

Apparently she was found harness on, with the lead trailing.

 

[Firstsnow4]

Lancashire Police latest map and timeline.

Clears up 'Upper and Lower' fields.

Also has some interesting new timings

Lancashire Constabulary - Search continues for Nicola Bulley as potential new witness is sought

The latest news and information for Lancashire Constabulary

www.lancashire.police.uk

So the upper field is the one closer to the east of the site than the bench side. That leaves even less time for something to have happened. IMO.